Porsche 911 Hybrid Two Years On: The GTS Was the First Step, the Turbo S Came Next
The 2025 911 Carrera GTS was the first hybrid 911, with 532 hp. In September 2025 Porsche put the same idea into the 911 Turbo S, with 701 hp.
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In May 2024 Porsche introduced the first hybrid 911: the 2025 Carrera GTS with its T-Hybrid system. Purists worried about weight and character. Two years later the system has moved up the range to the most powerful 911 Porsche builds.
The 2024 story
The GTS swapped its 3.0-liter twin-turbo flat-six for a 3.6-liter flat-six with a single electrically driven turbocharger and an electric motor in the eight-speed gearbox, fed by a 1.9-kWh battery. Combined output was 532 hp and 449 lb-ft, with 0-60 mph in as little as 2.9 seconds and 194 mph. The U.S. price rose to $166,895, while the non-hybrid Carrera gained 9 hp, to 388 hp, and cost $122,095, Jalopnik reported.
What happened next
At the Munich motor show in September 2025 Porsche revealed the 911 Turbo S with a T-Hybrid system based on the same principle. It makes 701 hp and 590 lb-ft, reaches 60 mph in 2.4 seconds and starts at $272,650 in the U.S., according to Motor1.
2024 vs 2026
| 911 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid | 911 Turbo S T-Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | May 2024 | September 2025 |
| Output | 532 hp, 449 lb-ft | 701 hp, 590 lb-ft |
| 0-60 mph | 2.9 seconds | 2.4 seconds |
| U.S. price | $166,895 | $272,650 |
Our read
Porsche used the GTS to test whether 911 buyers would accept a hybrid, and then applied the system to the Turbo S. The plain Carrera stays non-hybrid, so the hybrid is now Porsche's performance tool, not an efficiency measure. That is the most convincing way to sell electrification to 911 buyers.
